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Do forum links carry link popularity? Do they get spidered and indexed by the search engines? Does their anchor text get counted?
The answer appears to be no with all of the major search engines. This information comes via a ...

Donna Fontenot's got a fun little flash movie that we can all kick back and enjoy on our Friday lunch breaks. It's even got that nice, mellow '70s XXX-film soundtrack playing in the background and a few clever ...

Google has a new, expanded list of papers and projects written by their workers online. The repository is growing quite large and for obvious reasons, Google isn't showing nearly all of them. Their ability to continue to recrui...

SEOmoz is re-launching around the end of next week with a slightly updated look and feel, along with some other new items, which I've listed below:
The SEO Tools will have 2 dedicated servers to reduce wait times
A new link pricing tool is complete and await...

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At some point in every company owner's life, they realize that they are becoming too dependent on a single source of revenue and begin a diversification process to reduce risk (that is, unless you're Google).
For SEOs, especially those of us who generat...

The Open Directory Project has been suffering sever criticism over the past few months in the SEO community. From allegations of corruption (which I have seen firsthand) to ardent defenders to endless threads on the evils, benefits, waiting times and inequities of the directory, every...

As most SEOs in the business know, PageRank in Google's toolbar was unavailable over the Memorial Day weekend. This naturally led to many people asking questions about whether PR had dissapeared forever and if it had, whether a private-party solution could be c...

Exalead is a relative unknown in the web search market here in the US, but they have a much greater following in France and the EU, the target market for the product. Exalead is doing a fantastic job with search result...

With PageRank "all greyed out", many of the tools aren't working correctly. If it doesn't go back online by Tuesday or Wednesday, I'll probably start re-designing what the tools measure. Sorry for the inconvenience - such ...

Glengara posted at SEW asking whether Fantomaster's suggestion that on-page SEO was being ignored, to the detriment of rankings, was accurate. Several good responses illicited even more questions on the subject.
I...